Blue Ball Machine

[Jordan-117]

https://freecow.ytmnd.com/

https://takemeoutflanders.ytmnd.com/

https://finalstaringcontest.ytmnd.com/

https://vaderloveschristmas.ytmnd.com/

https://sixtymins.ytmnd.com/

https://tequilatts.ytmnd.com/

https://butteringobama.ytmnd.com/

https://pianos128.ytmnd.com/

My favorite: https://whatyouseewhenyoudie.ytmnd.com/

[darylteo]

Mine will always be https://picard.ytmnd.com/

[starmftronajoll]

This variation on the Vader meme still makes me laugh

https://vaderfortune.ytmnd.com

[sabellito]

My favourite: https://krullraves.ytmnd.com/

Still know the URL by heart.

[vandahm]

https://lukecompany.ytmnd.com/

Edit: Two more personal favorites from back in the day:

https://vaderholidayspecial.ytmnd.com/

https://bondfreaksout.ytmnd.com/

[justhw]

Free cow was excellent

[junon]

For those as confused as I was, turn the volume up.

[davedx]

https://catchthatdruid.ytmnd.com

[metadat]

Reminds me of https://floor796.com/

Though floor796 is way more rich and interesting, and still receiving additions every few days.

[0dayz]

That's amazing.

Reminds me of those early 2000s Russian ones.

[ryukoposting]

Is this is what a Boeing factory looks like?

[PedroBatista]

This is the visualization of my employer's Kubernetes deployment.

How did they got access to it? Concerning..

[PurelyApplied]

> How did they got access to it? Concerning..

Someone bound system:anonymous to ClusterReader "just for now, for testing, I'll delete it right after".

[speff]

Went down a rabbithole of old ytmnds I used to keep in the background. It's nuts how ones I thought were super popular at the time had less than 100k total views to this day. Mid-00s internet was still such a small place.

[darepublic]

Had an impact on popular culture that still persists

[smokinjoe]

https://momspaghetti.ytmnd.com/

One of the greatest contributions to humanity was the conversion of ytmnd from flash to html5

[pixelatedindex]

http://eeuauaughhhuauaahh.ytmnd.com/ https://youmakemetouchyourhandsforstupidreasons.ytmnd.com/ https://picarddoesthetruffle.ytmnd.com/ (Epilepsy warning)

[robohydrate]

I think I remember seeing calls for pieces of this on the SomethingAwful forums back in the day, it was a collaborative art piece. There was a template with specific frames where the ball enters and leaves each square and it was up to forum members to fill in the rest and then it was all stitched together.

[SaberTail]

Yeah, this was a project of the SomethingAwful forums. There are more pieces than in the linked YTMND. My contribution had the balls teleporting Star Trek -style, but I'm not sure I kept a copy anywhere.

[2four2]

https://drecosby.ytmnd.com/

[qingcharles]

The only one that matters. The original that started it all:

https://yourethemannowdog.ytmnd.com/

And my favorite, which was probably the most popular one of all time:

https://animated.ytmnd.com/

[johnzim]

https://epicgeordi.ytmnd.com

[meowface]

https://epicbeatz.ytmnd.com

[dorkwood]

This started out on the Something Awful forums back in the early 2000s. They made a few more after this one was such a hit. I joined in one year, probably at about age 18, using a bootleg copy of Photoshop that I got at a LAN party. My contribution is floating around somewhere.

[modeless]

https://ualuealuealeuale.ytmnd.com/

[neonroku]

https://rockthetaskbar.ytmnd.com/

[doctorpangloss]

https://rainbowstalin5.ytmnd.com/

[bitsinthesky]

Oh wow there are 14 of these

[kirse]

https://timetraveler.ytmnd.com/

[treve]

Does this ytmnd predate the movie 'safety not guaranteed'?

[vandahm]

Variation on a theme: https://hardsafety.ytmnd.com/

[binarymax]

Congrats people we did it https://ytmnd.com/sites/top_viewed/today

[meowface]

https://cosbyclassic.ytmnd.com https://cosbybebop.ytmnd.com http://chococosby.ytmnd.com

[geocrasher]

Volume warning...

[windows2020]

There exists an old game called "The Incredible Machine" where you create these.

[elpool2]

I was responsible for drawing 1/25th of this gif back in the day. There was actually way more tiles created but this is one version that went viral. Crazy to see it still pop up like this every couple of years.

[CarRamrod]

https://brucecampbellstomatosoup.ytmnd.com/

[donatj]

I thought YTMND was shutting down?

Also still my favorite:

https://dumbworf.ytmnd.com/

[indrora]

The hardware it was running on was... Basic at best and the database that backed the whole thing was torched at some point. The sole guy behind it however did manage to get some of it back up and working and launched a patreon to fund it.

The whole story is over here: https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/1/21202658/ytmnd-return-shut...

[taspeotis]

https://mybrotherisadumbass.ytmnd.com/

[autoexec-bat]

https://putintheritzon.ytmnd.com/

[wanderingjew]

https://bmsir.ytmnd.com/

[rolandog]

Like watching myself in the mirror.

[keketi]

YTMND was the TikTok of its time.

[yuters]

Check out ROY4L's sites: https://ytmnd.com/users/ROY4L/sites

My favorite creator on YTMND

[ClosedPistachio]

https://cslincoln.ytmnd.com/

[higgins]

YTMND, instant upvote

[mehlvin]

https://omgsecretnaziforest.ytmnd.com/

[WatchDog]

https://brownpaperbag.ytmnd.com/

[post_break]

https://iceskatinguphill.ytmnd.com

[agos]

https://yourethemannowdog.ytmnd.com

[higgins]

https://theocean.ytmnd.com/

[nxobject]

URLs you can hear...

[dapf]

I thought it was goin to be this: https://youtu.be/orBH_Qnw3eY

[AndrewKemendo]

I had no idea ytmnd still existed

Another point for old web longevity

[resource_waste]

Part of me likes all the insanity with the internet back then, with mixed feelings.

I probably got computer skills wasting time on YTMND for one reason or another.

I 100% attribute 4chan's b for inspiring me to program. Their raids inspired me to learn programming when I was a teenager.

But... I see that the alt-right came out of 4chan and the previously funny memes were no longer funny memes but serious accusations.

Maybe its basic phenomenology, but I wish I could see these websites as I once did, funny and edgy. Today I feel like there was something a bit darker that corrupted many users.

[maxcoder4]

I think you give too much agency to 4chan. It's just a imageboard - an internet forum - that happened to have some subforums related to alt-right. Maybe it had (has) a bad influence on people, but it's hundred times smaller than Facebook, Twitter or Reddit. To say it has single handedly started a movement is a huge stretch.

[YurgenJurgensen]

You have it backwards. The alt-right didn't come out of 4chan. It came in and displaced the existing culture. The term 'election tourist' (referring to the 2016 US Presidential elections) is still a common pejorative.

[teucris]

You got a lot of great responses to your observations around 4chan, partly debating whether it should be to blame for the growth of the alt-right. I think it boils down to one simple thing: 4chan was unfettered. Anyone could go there and do anything - learn to code, coordinate a LOIC attack, draft an Anonymous army, or brew an ultra-conservative movement. Those things will happen in places where there aren’t guards in place. The fewer of those places there are, the slower things on the fringe will develop. If an open forum is shut down, these things find new places to grow. But they won’t stop.

[earthboundkid]

Dale Beran's It Came From Something Awful is a good history of the evolution of the scene from edgelords to alt right.

[bowsamic]

I agree, actually most of my memories of that time are of pretty horrible sights online too. Shock gore sites, snuff films, etc. way more often than today

[adamrezich]

It's hard to take anyone who uses the term "alt-right" seriously and without irony as a legitimate label in 2024.

2016 called—they want their guilt-by-association blanket branding for any and all thought outside of what the established media corporations and entrenched political class consider to be acceptable political thought back.

The term "alt-right" contains the more or less the same legitimacy and valence as the term "libtard"—except, you see pundits use it in headlines in mainstream publications, so you think it's more acceptable and less of a nonsense blanket term designed to conveniently silo anything that exists outside of a general sphere of acceptable thought together so as to encourage political tribalism and prevent critical thinking.